[__marvin_the__]

> He couldn’t escape the sense that hitting on someone in person had, in a short period of time, gone from normal behavior to borderline creepy.

As a Z-ennial, this was one of my confusions, growing up. I would read articles on dating that, in today's standards, I think would not hold up.

[Throwaway8373]

I think this is key. Men's courthship is _extremely_ complex these years and has exclusively been vilified.

It appears as it is OK for people the merely point out how _not_ to court, and then men, automatically, knows how to do it right.